The Private Eye Writers of America has announced the finalists for the Shamus Awards for works published in 2012.

The winners will be announced during the PWA banquet, which will be held on Friday, Sept. 20, during Bouchercon in Albany, New York. Details are pending.

Mystery Scene congratulates all the finalists.


BEST HARDCOVER P.I. NOVEL
Robert B. Parker's Lullaby by Ace Atkins
Taken by Robert Crais
Hunting Sweetie Rose by Jack Fredrickson
Blues in the Night by Dick Lochte
The Other Woman by Hank Phillippi Ryan

BEST FIRST P.I. NOVEL
Hush Money by Chuck Greaves
Murder Unscripted by Clive Rosengren
Black Fridays by Michael Sears
Racing the Devil by Jaden Terrell
The Twenty-Year Death by Ariel S. Winter

BEST ORIGINAL PAPERBACK PI NOVEL
Death Warmed Over by Kevin J. Anderson
And She Was by Alison Gaylin
Archie Meets Nero Wolfe by Robert Goldsborough
False Negative by Joseph Koenig
Pulse by John Lutz

BEST P.I. SHORT STORY
"The Sequel" by Jeffrey Deaver in The Strand
"After Cana" by Terence Faherty in EQMM
"O'Nelligan and the Lost Fates" by Michael Nethercott in AHMM
"Illegitimati Non Carborundum" by Stephen D. Rogers in Crimespree
"Ghost Negligence" by John Shepphird in AHMM

BEST INDIE P.I. NOVEL
Stranger in Town by Cheryl Bradshaw
Enamorted by O'Neil De Noux
One-Eyed Jack by Christopher J. Lynch
White Heat by Paul Marks
Devil May Care by James Mullaney